Assessment & Treatment (Green book)

Question 1

What theory had a tx model that reflects its psychoanalytic roots by focusing on the INDIVIDUAL but also includes the transgenerational philosophy by considering the relationship to the family of origin

• primary goal was differentiation of the individual family members
• area of concern was the family unit
• doesnt require all family members to be present; does require understanding

Answer 1

Bowen theory

Question 2

Who recommends that the therapist should: decrease the level of emotional reactivity and anxiety in the sessions and increasing an understanding of the specific part each individual plays in maintaining problems?

Answer 2

Bowen

Question 3

Type of therapist that uses :

Person to person relationships, coaching, and using I position

Answer 3

Bowen therapist

Question 4

What type of theory uses, trust building, family resources, , and attends to four interacting dimension of individual and relational psychology?
-therapist may use genograms and verbal reports

Answer 4

Contextual

Question 5

type of therapist that uses multidirectional partiality, an advocate for everyone in the room, not impartial or neutral, makes demands on the family members, active guide, holding accountability for each family member

Answer 5

contextual therapist

Question 6

What theory uses assessment that consist of determining feedback loops that govern the faulty behavior patterns?

• tx usually limited to 10 session
• first and second order change

Answer 6

MRI Brief

Question 7

what type of theory uses assessment that insight, working through, transference, interpretation, and affect expressed
-look at the multiogenerational history, search for structure underlying the problem, look at the system as PARTS

Answer 7

Object relations

Question 8

type of theory that looks at the multigenerational systemic patterns, uncovering and understanding the nature of their current behaviors and struggles as they relate to family of origin
-bringing the family of origin into session;goal is insight and working through

Answer 8

James Framo

Question 9

Type of therapy that uses a six step procedure

• intro to tx set up
• definition of the problem
• estimation of behaviors maintaining the problem
• setting the goals for tx
• exploring previous attempts
• selecting and making behavioral interventions

Answer 9

MRI Brief

Question 10

True or false: Transitions in the family life cycle are the most vulnerable to the development of problems?

Answer 10

True

Question 11

True or false: Chronic symptoms are not a defect in the system but a problem that has been repetitively mishandled?

Answer 11

True

Question 12

True or false: Change is effected most readily if the goals are relatively large and unclear stated

Answer 12

False

small and clear

Question 13

True or false: brief therapy is not symptom oriented

Answer 13

False. It is symptom oriented

Question 14

Type of therapy that terminates usually by end of 10 sessions

Answer 14

MRI BRIEF

Question 15

What theory is also interested in present behaviors and sequences of interactions?
they use strategic models to alter interations but ALSO change the structure of the family

Answer 15

Haley and Madanes model

Question 16

Type of model that uses a four stage process

• Social stage
• problem stage
• interactional stage
• Goal setting stage

Answer 16

Hayley Madanes treatment

Question 17

term: are directives that are aimed at making the symptom harder to keep than give up
- requires the clients to do something they do not want to do that would benefit them in some way

Answer 17

ordeals

Question 18

type of treatment that Madanes uses that helps to structure the parental system if the child is at the “top”
-parent is directed to request that his/her child intentionally perform the problem behavior
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Answer 18

Dramatizations

Question 19

type of directive used by Madanes that directs parents to ask the child to pretend to have the symptom and the parents to pretend to help the child

Answer 19

pretending

Question 20

type of model that treatment used a male-female dyad and observed by other team members

• had 5 parts
• presession, session, intersession, intervention, and post session discussion
• used positive connotations and rituals, hypothesizing, circularity and neutrality

Answer 20

Milan Model

Question 21

True or false: Second order cybernetic conceives of the therapist and family as one unit

Answer 21

True

Question 22

What type of model where accommodation, joining, enactment, mapping the system, intensity, shaping competence, unbalancing, and boundary making are a part of assessment and treatment?

Answer 22

Structural

Question 23

type of models that have unstructured assessments

• focus is on the suppressed emotions and impulses that block the growth of fulfillment of individual family members
• focus is on the here and now
• assessment is automatic

Answer 23

Experiential model

Question 24

What type of therapist uses existential encounters?

-willing to both receive the family members reactions to him/her and to full disclose his/her reactions to them

Answer 24

Experiential

Question 25

Type of model that finds that assessment starts at the “first phone call..”

• important to have the whole family is session
• “causes of the problem are circular, and the changes are circular as well..”
• assessment is the whole system as well-looking at the whole- the therapists own reactions is important
• therapist is the expert/coach; lots of personality and creativity used

Answer 25

Symbolic experiential -Whitaker

Question 26

This model is not timed for termination or is there a specific number of sessions

Answer 26

Symbolic

Question 27

type of model that is focused on changing the rules under which the system operates and changing the system as a result
-communication analysis, model analysis, and label or role function analysis

Answer 27

Satir

Question 28

This type of model uses assessment and treatment to help clients shift from talking about problems to talking about solutions

• identify resources
• build successful past solutions to problems
• use miracle questions, exception questions, scaling

Answer 28

Solution focused model

Question 29

the goal of this model is to:
diminish problem behaviors and increase positive behaviors
-interventions include, operant conditioning principles
-tx is time limited and symptom focused; problem concrete and measurable
-continued assessment

Answer 29

Behavioral models

Question 30

term: identify the antecedents and consequences of the target behavior- design specifically to the client/s

Answer 30

functional analysis of behavior

Question 31

type of therapist that believes that reinforcement contingencies are responsible for maintaining behaviors and require ongoing maintenance

Answer 31

behavioral therapist

Question 32

What are the types of parent skills interventions used in behavioral models?

Answer 32

Time outs
Behavioral contracting
shaping
home token economies
contingency contracting
punishment

Question 33

What types of couples interventions are used in behavioral models?

Answer 33

caring days

love days

Question 34

term: type of reinforcer that is intiated after a behavior

Answer 34

positive reinforcer

Answer 35

negative reinforcer